Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Wednesday July 8, 2020 |
Evening Time: 10:17 PM PST
"Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me: for Thou art the God of my salvation; on
Thee do I wait all the day." --Psalm 25:5
When the believer has begun with trembling feet to walk in the way of the
Lord, he asks to be still led onward like a little child upheld by its parent's
helping hand, and he craves to be further instructed in the alphabet of truth.
Experimental teaching is the burden of this prayer. David knew much, but he felt
his ignorance, and desired to be still in the Lord's school: four times over in
two verses he applies for a scholarship in the college of grace. It were well
for many professors if instead of following their own devices, and cutting out
new paths of thought for themselves, they would enquire for the good old ways of
God's own truth, and beseech the Holy Ghost to give them sanctified
understandings and teachable spirits. "For thou art the God of my
salvation." The Three-One Jehovah is the Author and Perfecter of salvation
to His people. Reader, is He the God of your salvation? Do you find in
the Father's election, in the Son's atonement, and in the Spirit's quickening,
all the grounds of your eternal hopes? If so, you may use this as an argument
for obtaining further blessings; if the Lord has ordained to save you, surely He
will not refuse to instruct you in His ways. It is a happy thing when we can
address the Lord with the confidence which David here manifests, it gives us
great power in prayer, and comfort in trial. "On Thee do I wait all the
day." Patience is the fair handmaid and daughter of faith; we cheerfully
wait when we are certain that we shall not wait in vain. It is our duty and our
privilege to wait upon the Lord in service, in worship, in expectancy, in trust
all the days of our life. Our faith will be tried faith, and if it be of the
true kind, it will bear continued trial without yielding. We shall not grow
weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once
waited for us.
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